Theatre News

Opening: Three Kingdoms, Top Hat, Starlight Express & Babel

Amongst the major London openings, in the West End and further afield, in this shortened bank holiday week are:

OPENING TUESDAY

Three Kingdoms
8 MAY 2012
(PREVIEWS FROM 3 MAY)

Simon Stephens‘ new play, set amid the murky depths of the European vice trade, premieres at the Lyric Hammersmith, where it continues to 19 May.

Encounters
(PREVIEWS FROM 25 APRIL)

Friends star David Schwimmer directs You’re Not Like the Other Girls Chrissy, in a double bill with Dry Ice, at the Bush Theatre, running until 12 May.

OPENING WEDNESDAY

Top Hat
9 MAY 2012
(PREVIEWS FROM 19 APRIL)

The stage musical adaptation of the classic 1935 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie transfers to the Aldwych Theatre, starring Tom Chambers and Summer Strallen.

When Women Wee
(PREVIEWS FROM 8 MAY)

Dirty Stop Out’s show exploring the “truth that lies behind the doors of a public toilet” transfers to Soho Theatre for a run to 19 May.

OPENING THURSDAY

Starlight Express
10 MAY 2012

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe‘s 1984 musical-on-rollerskates kicks off a new UK tour at the New Wimbledon Theatre.

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Babel

Battersea Arts Centre teams with WildWorks to present an epic site-specific production in Caledonian Park, the centrepiece of World Stages London, which runs until 20 May.

A Slow Air
(PREVIEWS FROM 8 MAY)

David Harrower’s new play, which premiered at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, transfers to the Tricycle Theatre for a run to 2 June.